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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Sweet-clover roots. Photograph sent by W. E. Kirk, Amarillo, Texas. Tlie seed 

 was sown six months before the roots were pulled. The center root weighed 4^ 

 pounds. The root at the extreme right grew on sod land. 



The law previously in effect is repealed, 

 and the new law specifies that the Entomol- 

 ogist of the State Experiment Station shall 

 be State Entomologist of the State, and 

 have charge of the enforcement of the law. 

 Under the former law the Professor of En- 

 tomology in the Agricultural and Mechani- 

 cal College was State Entomologist. This 

 change was made principally because such 

 work as eradicating foul brood was deemed 

 more appropriate for an Experiment Sta- 

 tion than for an educational institution. 

 This change in the law does not, for the 

 present at least, make any change in the 

 incumbent of the office of State Entomolo- 

 gist, as Mr. Wilmon Newell, the State En- 

 tomologist, is entomologist of the Station, 

 as well as Professor of Entomology in the 

 College. 



Section 3 authorizes the State Entomolo- 

 gist to issue such regulations relative to 

 quarantines, shipment of bees, etc., as may 

 be necessary to a proper enforcement of 

 the law, and any violation of these regula- 

 tions is defined as a misdemeanor. 



The provisions of Section 4 require that 

 all bees, except those shipped in wire cages 

 without combs or honey, when shipped into 

 the State be accompanied by the certificate 

 of the State Entomologist or Chief Foul- 

 brood Inspector of the State from whicli 

 they are shipped. However, in those cases 

 where a certificate can not be obtained from 

 the proper State official, or where there is 

 no State inspection of apiaries, permission 

 to make the shipment into Texas may be 

 obtained from the Texas State Entomolo- 



gist upon the presentation of suitable evi- 

 dence showing the bees to be healthy. As 

 noted above, these requirements do not ap- 

 ply to the shipment of bees in wire cages 

 without combs or honey. On shipments of 

 these there are no restrictions. The provi- 

 sions relative to queen-bees are in exact ac- 

 cord with those of the Postoffice Depart- 

 ment, i. e., queen-bees must be accompanied 

 by a certificate or by copy of an affidavit 

 showing that the honey used in making the 

 candy contained in the cages has been suit- 

 ably boiled. 



The law authorizes the State Entomolo- 

 gist to make regulations relative to the in< 

 terstate shipment of used hives, fixtures, 

 etc., and makes it obligatory upon all com- 

 mon carriers to comply with such regula- 

 tions. 



Shipments of diseased bees found in the 

 possession of any common cariier may be 

 confiscated by the Entomologist or his in- 

 spectors, and, for purposes of inspecting 

 bees that are in process of shijnnent, these 

 officials are autliorized to enter railway de- 

 pots, cais, express offices, etc. 



The new law is, perhaps, unique in its 

 provisions for the quarantining of counties 

 or other areas witliin the State of Texas. 

 The State Entomologist may impose either 

 a "protective" quarantine or a "restric- 

 tive " quarantine in any county or group of 

 counties. A protective quarantine is de- 

 fined as one Avhich is to keep diseased bees 

 out of any county or other area which may 

 be either free from the disease or in process 

 of being freed l)v the work of eradication. 



